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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
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History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
Andre Malraux
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.
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The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
Andre Malraux
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
Andre Malraux
A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.
Andre Malraux
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
Andre Malraux
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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